The first paragraph was particularly accurate, in fact I'd go as far as saying its the best singular description anyone has made of me. I have tried explaining to many people many times, that I see my path as solitary for the majority of my journey, though they have difficulty understanding my isolation, seeing it as a rather an unsociable state. But as your rightly pointed out, its something Im extremely comfortable with, feeling connected with everyone in my absence. I'd like to explain it, but I feel my words would inadequately express it as well as yours have. So thankyou. Clarity,
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Hey everyone,
Just to introduce myself, I'm Matt, and have been studying the I Ching for about 10 years now. I spent roughly 3-4 years studying the original poetic texts with full image traditions, concordance, symbol traditions etc, before eventually committing them to memory.
Though I am surprised no one has mentioned I Ching cycles. I have read many books by translators, some versions (Wilhelm in particular) appear to be extremely inaccurate, Stephen Karchers first books were as close (text-wise) to the original as any I have read. But still, there is some serious lack of interpretation on offer in this wonderful subject. I have glanced at S. Karchers new work, with the introduction of nuclear trigrams associated with each level of change, and while I admire his depth of thought and sense of discovery, I feel the most important areas are being missed.
I have devised individual cylic movements for the I Ching. After all, energy is forever transforming, and I believe the I ching is a model, as cryptic as it is, of how opposing energys in this universe interact. Incredibly, some of the lines of thinking are just so off centre, it makes daily newspaper astrology look credible. The I Ching is from a place where energy exists as one, rather than the polarized form we have in our lives now, and I ve heard the word "Polarizing" a few times as Ive broused these pages, mainly in reference to the trigram being "important in some way". Of course its important!! Its the force that keeps things in opposition but connectivity, the key to the I Chings potential wisdom.
I have done some work with nuclear trigrams, and nuclear of nuclear trigrams, and found direct correlations matching the current sun cyle, the math I have done even fits the number 64 perfectly in 365, for a cyclic order. I have worked with the earlier heaven arrangement, when Radiance was Easterly rather than Shake, and am currently matching it to the polar and equatorial movements of the sun. I have found that there are certain energies in this current heavenly arrangement that work to structure the sequence of events, some nuclears cannot be returned to a state of Field or Force (the most natural state of energy). When correlating partnerships between the 8 trigram energies, a pattern also forms, much like a natal wheel in astrology, and based on the information I have collected, the shape drawn is a pentagon star - and these are only using the strong aspects, no weak or medium. The results are astonishing and exciting.
But the most important thing I am a little dismayed in hearing, is how people are applying the Oracle to their own personal energys. All energy is connected, hence the reason why I study the Earth and Sun's electromagnetic field for cylcic changes also, but each human is a huge whirling mass of electromagnetic energy too! The whole point of Augmenting and Diminishing is to grow parts of our energy we normally neglect. We do this, by first becoming aware of our own personal cycles, and then we augment for growth, and diminish to harvest the results. Its the way energy works, except for humanity who is obsessed with living only half their lives in a routine (getting up at the same time, going to bed at the same time) this process is mediocre at best. Most of us miss half the energys that would bring about a full cycle, and instead we wait for small openings of knowledge, either created by a synchronistic event forced by intuition or the Earths own cyclic generosity.
And the interpretations of the transforming lines are on the whole - wrong. A small example of a transforming line which many of you will have no doubt had before, and dreaded looking at. 56.1 Sojourning, changes to 30 Radiance. Im sure many of you have wondered how this initial six change can be so bad if it changes into the beautiful clarity and awareness of Radiance! Its quite simple, Sojourning is a misunderstood text, as so many are. It applies to synchronistic meetings and conversations of high awareness. The inner trigram, Bound, represents accomplishing words, but with a good limit for articulation, the outer Radiance implies growing awareness. Now this whole trigram is about meeting people and the connections we establish with them. The transforming line reads "Fragmenting, fragmenting, splitting off ones place, grasping calamity".
Imagine a situation where 2 people have an important conversation, each have excellent information for each other, but this weill require them both to articulate in speech, to take it in turns, to offer and idea, but then wait for the shift of energy to go to the other person{s} so they may expand. Its the purpose of sjourning, to build an outer awareness through inner limits. The nuclear trigram suggests a great build up of energy if this trigram is used correctly, and the nuclear of THAT nuclear reverts back to the creative energy of Force...the symbol tradition SHOULD read "A chun tzu brightens his consideration to connect people and not detain litigation". Again, this stresses, our image should be directed towards inspiring talk, "brightened consideration" - Bound allowing intervals of speech.
The transforming line is indicating that a person is NOT using his inner limit well, they are not allowing the energy to pass from one person to the other in conversation, they are feeling the build up of energy created by the connection and as indicated by the nuclear, but the are not being "small", the impulse has them doing the opposite. The feel the impulse of the expanding radiance on the outer, and they are fragmenting the conversation. When the energy is due to pass, they continue and split off anothers place to speak. They are drawing on the energy built by the connection and in feeling so good in the conversation, they quite frankly WAFFLE THEIR HEADS OFF! Sure they feel great, hence the 30 Radiance, but they have not allowed the group to share valuable information, incidentally setting you back slightly....
Im sorry I must cut this short, I have probably said enough already, but Im very tired and need a little sleep. Thanks for listening, and please again let me emphasise, I am not disrespecting the current Ching scene, Im just trying to understand it, because this is my first time online with this.
Just to introduce myself, I'm Matt, and have been studying the I Ching for about 10 years now. I spent roughly 3-4 years studying the original poetic texts with full image traditions, concordance, symbol traditions etc, before eventually committing them to memory.
Though I am surprised no one has mentioned I Ching cycles. I have read many books by translators, some versions (Wilhelm in particular) appear to be extremely inaccurate, Stephen Karchers first books were as close (text-wise) to the original as any I have read. But still, there is some serious lack of interpretation on offer in this wonderful subject. I have glanced at S. Karchers new work, with the introduction of nuclear trigrams associated with each level of change, and while I admire his depth of thought and sense of discovery, I feel the most important areas are being missed.
I have devised individual cylic movements for the I Ching. After all, energy is forever transforming, and I believe the I ching is a model, as cryptic as it is, of how opposing energys in this universe interact. Incredibly, some of the lines of thinking are just so off centre, it makes daily newspaper astrology look credible. The I Ching is from a place where energy exists as one, rather than the polarized form we have in our lives now, and I ve heard the word "Polarizing" a few times as Ive broused these pages, mainly in reference to the trigram being "important in some way". Of course its important!! Its the force that keeps things in opposition but connectivity, the key to the I Chings potential wisdom.
I have done some work with nuclear trigrams, and nuclear of nuclear trigrams, and found direct correlations matching the current sun cyle, the math I have done even fits the number 64 perfectly in 365, for a cyclic order. I have worked with the earlier heaven arrangement, when Radiance was Easterly rather than Shake, and am currently matching it to the polar and equatorial movements of the sun. I have found that there are certain energies in this current heavenly arrangement that work to structure the sequence of events, some nuclears cannot be returned to a state of Field or Force (the most natural state of energy). When correlating partnerships between the 8 trigram energies, a pattern also forms, much like a natal wheel in astrology, and based on the information I have collected, the shape drawn is a pentagon star - and these are only using the strong aspects, no weak or medium. The results are astonishing and exciting.
But the most important thing I am a little dismayed in hearing, is how people are applying the Oracle to their own personal energys. All energy is connected, hence the reason why I study the Earth and Sun's electromagnetic field for cylcic changes also, but each human is a huge whirling mass of electromagnetic energy too! The whole point of Augmenting and Diminishing is to grow parts of our energy we normally neglect. We do this, by first becoming aware of our own personal cycles, and then we augment for growth, and diminish to harvest the results. Its the way energy works, except for humanity who is obsessed with living only half their lives in a routine (getting up at the same time, going to bed at the same time) this process is mediocre at best. Most of us miss half the energys that would bring about a full cycle, and instead we wait for small openings of knowledge, either created by a synchronistic event forced by intuition or the Earths own cyclic generosity.
And the interpretations of the transforming lines are on the whole - wrong. A small example of a transforming line which many of you will have no doubt had before, and dreaded looking at. 56.1 Sojourning, changes to 30 Radiance. Im sure many of you have wondered how this initial six change can be so bad if it changes into the beautiful clarity and awareness of Radiance! Its quite simple, Sojourning is a misunderstood text, as so many are. It applies to synchronistic meetings and conversations of high awareness. The inner trigram, Bound, represents accomplishing words, but with a good limit for articulation, the outer Radiance implies growing awareness. Now this whole trigram is about meeting people and the connections we establish with them. The transforming line reads "Fragmenting, fragmenting, splitting off ones place, grasping calamity".
Imagine a situation where 2 people have an important conversation, each have excellent information for each other, but this weill require them both to articulate in speech, to take it in turns, to offer and idea, but then wait for the shift of energy to go to the other person{s} so they may expand. Its the purpose of sjourning, to build an outer awareness through inner limits. The nuclear trigram suggests a great build up of energy if this trigram is used correctly, and the nuclear of THAT nuclear reverts back to the creative energy of Force...the symbol tradition SHOULD read "A chun tzu brightens his consideration to connect people and not detain litigation". Again, this stresses, our image should be directed towards inspiring talk, "brightened consideration" - Bound allowing intervals of speech.
The transforming line is indicating that a person is NOT using his inner limit well, they are not allowing the energy to pass from one person to the other in conversation, they are feeling the build up of energy created by the connection and as indicated by the nuclear, but the are not being "small", the impulse has them doing the opposite. The feel the impulse of the expanding radiance on the outer, and they are fragmenting the conversation. When the energy is due to pass, they continue and split off anothers place to speak. They are drawing on the energy built by the connection and in feeling so good in the conversation, they quite frankly WAFFLE THEIR HEADS OFF! Sure they feel great, hence the 30 Radiance, but they have not allowed the group to share valuable information, incidentally setting you back slightly....
Im sorry I must cut this short, I have probably said enough already, but Im very tired and need a little sleep. Thanks for listening, and please again let me emphasise, I am not disrespecting the current Ching scene, Im just trying to understand it, because this is my first time online with this.